my buddy who works at best buy said they held some back just so the employees could buy them and then sell them for quite a bit more on ebay/amazon/etc. he ended up buying 2 of them himself and sold them for 200 over retail.

Hold on so does this mean i might not get the ipad from Best buy that i have reserved with a $100 deposit ?

You may get one in a few more weeks! I also reserved one from BB because I had over $200 worth of gift cards there, but 3 weeks later and they still kept telling me they havent gotten any in. So I just said f*** BB and found one at a nearby Walmart. Theres a thread on BB's own forum with many angry customers over this. I'll use my gift cards to buy video games or something from them and then I'll be done with them for good.

I say Apple kick Best Buy as a distributor. They don't need them. Also ever since my gift cards didn't work towards "reward points", I stopped shopping there. That and the fact that a Frys Electronics opened a store pretty much right next door to the best buy. Granted their customer service might not be the greatest, but when I can walk in Frys and 99.9% of the time they have what I'm looking for while saving at LEAST $20 on computer equipment (except Apple because of their tight hold on pricing) and games, I'm all for it. Long live Frys!

Frys is ****. The customer service is horrible and they are always a higher price then best buy. But this might just be the one I'm my area.

Im astounded at the people on here who want to put this in apples lap.... how is it apples fault that best buy is holding on to stock and not selling it? im at a loss...

and that ad is garbage. I dont understand how a keyboard is a selling point. if you really need a keyboard that bad that it decides what brand you choose, buy a laptop. pretty simple concept. or as the other people said get your head out of the sand and realize there are keyboards available for the ipad. (Personally I would stay away from zagg as their customer service horrendous.)

Yeah and 99.9% of the time their "stuff" is used and/or defective. I stopped shopping there after every time I purchased something I would literally have to return it due to the fact that it was either defective or clearly used. But anyway, to each his own. I personally would rather shop at a store where I know I'm getting a working product. And with that I say, long live Best Buy! ;-)

Odd, dont know what location that is but the one near me isn't like that. Every product I buy there I know for a fact is BRAND NEW. I'm very anal about that. Yes they do sell open packaged items, but they also have a giant "returned item" sticker on them with even greater savings (if you want to take that chance).

Frys is ****. The customer service is horrible and they are always a higher price then best buy. But this might just be the one I'm my area.

Must just be in your area. Fry's is typically 10-15% less across the board in Austin. I use this to my advantage because BB has their price match plus 10% policy where if I find it cheaper somewhere else within 30 days they will refund me the difference plus 10%. So I will get a quote from Frys, buy something at BB... show customer service my quote and get a refund plus 10% on the spot!

No actually, Best Buy employees do not get a discount on these products. That's why they're classified as "Authorized Resellers," as they do not actually make money on the products themselves. They are sold "at cost." So unless you have something insightful to say, you might want to not comment on something you're uneducated on.

LMFAO!!! You are saying Best Buy doesn't make a profit selling iPads? You're saying wholesale cost for iPads is really full sticker price? What are you smoking and where can I get some? Cost is well below sticker price and Best Buy most certainly turns a profit selling iPads. And you're cocky attitude is just a bad joke when you spew idiocy like this.

They can have my jailbreak when they pry it from my cold dead fingers.